Appointed team member for studying “decision-making under uncertainty” at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letter, Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo (2000-2001)

Contributions to initiating and establishing a number of national research programmes: Committee for Risk Research, NTNF (1978-84), AURA “Analysis of occ. accidents” (1984-88), IK-EVA “Evaluation of the internal control reform” (1990-1994), Risk and uncertainty (1999-2002) which gave a basis for HMS-petroleum, RISIT, IKT-SOS , and finally head of a committee of inquiry for establishing a new research programme on Societal Safety and Risk Research (SAMRISK) (2005), and later member of the SAMRISK programme committee, 2007- 2011).

Member of an advisory board for risk and vulnerability analysis in NATO (2007-2009)

Dissertation supervisor for 12 PhD students, and opponent in numerous PhD disputations in Norway and abroad.

In commissions for assessing numerous professorships in Norway and abroad.

Jan Hovden, b. 1943, Sør-Fron, Norway

Professor in safety management, NTNU (full time since 1991), at the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management

Academic background

Graduated in political science at the University of Oslo, 1968. (Magistergrad)

Advanced courses in social science methods and applied statistics at the University of Cologne (1972) and at the University of Essex (1969).

The SINTEF school in research project management (1985)

Previous positions

2005-2008 senior research adviser (part-time) for the Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB)

1997-2000 Adjunct professor at the Haugesund/Stord University College

2000-2003 Adjunct professor at Stavanger University College

1996-1997 Visiting professor at Delft Technical University (TU Delft)

1986-1991 Adjunct professor in safety management at NTH

1984-1985 Visiting researcher at the Royal University of Technology (KTH), Stockholm,

1979-1991 Senior research scientist within safety research at SINTEF

1973-1978 Assistant professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH)

1969-1973 Adviser in social science data analysis, Institute for social research, Oslo

Assignments (a selection)

Member of the editorial board of the journal “Safety Science”, Elsevier, 1994 -

Participation in a research project for the Council of Europe on major hazards management, 1995-97

Member of the project group on Co-operative Nordic Risk Research (1998-1999)

Head of the annual conference “Sikkerhetsdagene” at NTNU for more than 20 years (www.sikkerhetsdagene.no) , and for the international conference “WorkingOnSafety” 2010 (www.wos2010.no).

Appointed team member for studying “decision-making under uncertainty” at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letter, Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo (2000-2001)

Contributions to initiating and establishing a number of national research programmes: Committee for Risk Research, NTNF (1978-84), AURA “Analysis of occ. accidents” (1984-88), IK-EVA “Evaluation of the internal control reform” (1990-1994), Risk and uncertainty (1999-2002) which gave a basis for HMS-petroleum, RISIT, IKT-SOS , and finally head of a committee of inquiry for establishing a new research programme on Societal Safety and Risk Research (SAMRISK) (2005), and later member of the SAMRISK programme committee, 2007- 2011).

Member of an advisory board for risk and vulnerability analysis in NATO (2007-2009)

Dissertation supervisor for 12 PhD students, and opponent in numerous PhD disputations in Norway and abroad.

In commissions for assessing numerous professorships in Norway and abroad.